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The Brookdale Foundation at a glance

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The Brookdale Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$338k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Human Services$375kArts & Culture$353kHealth$200kFood & Nutrition$178kPhilanthropy$133kReligion$50kPublic Safety & Disaster$15kAnimals$10k
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $163k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $165k
$15,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$5.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LIFETIME ARTS$65,000
ARTIS NAPLES$50,000
LIGHTHOUSE OF COLLIER INC$50,000
TIMESLIPS CREATIVE STORYTELLING INC$42,500
GENERATIONS UNITED$20,000
TARNOFF ART CENTER$20,000
NEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL OF DRAWING PAINTING AND SCULPTURE INC$15,000
FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY$15,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$15,000
GERIATRIC SERVICES INC$15,000
HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SW FLORIDA$10,000
HIGH COUNTRY CAREGIVERS$10,000
THE HEBREW HOME AT RIVERDALE FOUNDATION$5,000
SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $478k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE FOOD DEPOT: $13k → 12%LIGHTHOUSE OF COLLIER INC: $100k → 10%HIGH COUNTRY CAREGIVERS: $10k → 21%THE FOOD DEPOT: $10k → 12%LIGHTHOUSE OF COLLIER INC: $50k → 10%GERIATRIC SERVICES INC: $50k → 7%BAKER SENIOR CENTER NAPLES FORMERLY NAPLES SENIOR CENTER AT JFCS INC: $100k → 10%GERIATRIC SERVICES INC: $15k → 7%GERIATRIC SERVICES INC: $10k → 7%NAPLES SENIOR CENTERAT JFCS INC: $100k → 10%NAPLES SENIOR CENTER AT JFCS INC: $20k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
PA
NJ
NM
NC
DC
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 14 repeat orgs$218k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
8

Total granted

$1.1M
$130k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+19%

Still filing today

79%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthFood & NutritionPhilanthropyCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • GU
    GENERATIONS UNITED INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $133k · revenue +181%
  • GS
    GERIATRIC SERVICES INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +9%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR THE ARTS OF BONITA SPRINGS INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $40k · revenue +124%

Funded once

  • NCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +210%
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOME NETWORK
    one grant, 2022 · $30k
  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF NEW YORK CITY FOOD FOR SURVIVAL
    one grant, 2023 · $13k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
New York Common Pantry

New york common pantry reduces hunger while promoting dignity, health and self-sufficiency.

Food & Nutrition
2
City Harvest Inc

To end hunger in communities throughout new york city. (see schedule o)to end hunger in communities throughout new york city. we do this through food rescue and distribution, education, and other practical, innovative solutions.

Food & Nutrition
3
Visionsservices for the Blind and Visually Impaired

Visions is a 98-year-old nonprofit vision rehabilitation and social service organization that trains low income people of all ages experiencing blindness and severe vision loss to lead independent and active lives at work, in their homes…

Human Services
4
York County Council On Aging Inc

York county council on aging's (yccoa) mission is to serve as a focal point for the provision and coordination of a broad range of services and activities for senior adults in york and chester counties, sc. we strive to improve health and…

Human Services
5
Durham Center for Senior Life

Enrich the lives of durham older adults 55+ by promoting healthy, active, and independent lifestyles.

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6
Seniorsplus

Seniorsplus' mission is to enrich the lives of older adults, adults with disabilities, caregivers and family members by supporting their independence, dignity and quality of life. as both the agency on aging for androscoggin, franklin and…

Human Services
7
Lake County Council On Aging Inc

The council of aging provides aging adults and their support system with services and opportunities that enable them to achieve an optimal, self defined, quality of life. this is achieved through the provision of education, nutrition…

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8
Hunger Solutions New York Inc

We strive to maximize participation in, and support for, federally funded nutrition assistance programs including supplemental nutrition assistance program (snap), the school breakfast program and national school lunch program, the summer…

Food & Nutrition
9
San Francisco Food Bank

To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…

—
10
Onegeneration

To enrich the lives of seniors, children and their families, throughout our diverse communities. to promote healthy aging and provide social services to vulnerable and impoverished seniors.

—
11
Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care and Rehabilitation

To provide with compassion and dedication superior quality health care and rehabilitation for adults and to directly or indirectly coordinate arrangements and provision for comprehensive health care and social support services to frail…

Health
12
Capital Area Food Bank Inc

The mission of the capital area food bank (the food bank or cafb) is to help our neighbors thrive by creating more equitable access to food and opportunity through community partnerships.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Hebrew Home for the Aged at Riverdale Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is High Country Caregiver Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
12/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BAKER SENIOR CENTER NAPLES INC: $220,000 · Human ServicesBAKER SENIOR CENTER NAPLES INCLIGHTHOUSE OF COLLIER INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE OF COLLIER INCGERIATRIC SERVICES INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesGERIATRIC SERVICES INCTHE FOOD DEPOT: $22,500 · Human Services+2 more: $15,000 · Human ServicesHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SW FLORIDA: $90,000 · OtherHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF…CHABAD JEWISH CENTER OF NAPLES INC: $50,000 · OtherCHABAD JEWISH CENTER OF N…TARNOFF ART CENTER: $30,000 · OtherTARNOFF ART CENTERCHILDREN'S HOME NETWORK: $30,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HOME NETWORKNEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL: $25,000 · OtherNEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOLFOOD BANK OF NEW YORK CITY FOOD FOR SURVIVAL: $12,500 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · OtherANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL OF NYC INC: $10,000 · OtherWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $15,000 · OtherFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $15,000 · Other+2 more: $12,500 · OtherLIFETIME ARTS INC: $115,000 · Arts & CultureLIFETIME ARTS INCARTIS-NAPLES INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureARTIS-NAPLES INCCENTER FOR THE ARTS OF BONITA SPRINGS INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR THE ARTS OF…GENERATIONS UNITED INC: $133,000 · PhilanthropyGENERATIONS…NCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC: $50,000 · HealthTIMESLIPS CREATIVE STORYTELLING INC: $42,500 · HealthThe Hebrew Home for the Aged at Riverdale Foundation Inc: $25,000 · Crime & LegalCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $20,000 · Food & NutritionCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Human Services$482,500Other$300,000Arts & Culture$255,000Philanthropy$133,000Health$92,500Crime & Legal$25,000Food & Nutrition$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBAKER SENIOR CENTER NAPLES INC: $220,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE OF COLLIER INC: $150,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetGENERATIONS UNITED INC: $133,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetLIFETIME ARTS INC: $115,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetARTIS-NAPLES INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGERIATRIC SERVICES INC: $75,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetNCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTIMESLIPS CREATIVE STORYTELLING INC: $42,500 over 1y, 16% of budgetCENTER FOR THE ARTS OF BONITA SPRINGS INC: $40,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetThe Hebrew Home for the Aged at Riverdale Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FOOD DEPOT: $22,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPASCACK VALLEY MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Ramapo TrustGlendale FoundationVanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Ramapo TrustNJ22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ramapo Trust · Glendale Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Brookdale Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Brookdale Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Brookdale Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Brookdale Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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